Woodland girls golf team beats River Valley with four 40-stroke performers

Going into this season, Mark Jones did not think this could happen. That's because he didn't know golf rookie Melissa Mahoney would acclimate to the sport so well.

A senior in her first year with the Woodland girls golf team, coached by Jones, Mahoney was one of four Wolves to score in the 40s on Monday. At the par-35 Loomis Lake course, Woodland (15-2, 13-1 Tri-County Conference) beat River Valley 255 to 286.

Mahoney (49) was joined by Sara Scarlett (41), as well as Sydney Santana and Selina Munos (48 each) to accomplish a feat which Ferguson called "pretty exceptional."

"If I had tried to predict last year if we could do this, I would have thought no," Jones said. "We have the best golfer in the league (in Scarlett) and two other really great girls behind her, but we were scrambling for (golfers) four, five, six and got part of it down (with Mahoney)."

The coach said the senior had "her best round ever" to make it up 50.

What made all four girl's rounds all the more impressive was the course condition. Recent work on the greens made them "really bumpy," Jones said.

"I was surprised the other grirls scored as high as they did," he said.

The Wolves square off with Pioneer on Thursday at 3 p.m. at the Yolo Fliers Club.